Sony has temporarily stopped selling games in China. The company took to social network Weibo to announce indefinite suspension of PlayStation Store China. The reason for the temporary closure is a “system security upgrade.”

Capcom’s revenues declined 18.4 percent year-over-year to ¥81.6 billion ($766 million). This, however, didn’t stop the company from reporting  ¥15.95 billion ($150 million) in net profits, which is 27.1 percent more that in the fiscal year 2019.

In its latest report, Newzoo projects that in 2020 video games industry will generate $159.3 billion in revenue, up 9.3 percent from 2019. This will come from 2.7 billion gamers around the world.

Tokyo Game Show 2020 that was scheduled to run from September 24th to 27th, has been cancelled. The organizers are now planning an online event.

AppMagic rounded up the top mobile games by downloads and revenue in April 2020.

The US PS Store posted April’s top games by downloads. There are separate top 10 charts for premium titles, free-to-play, DLC, and PlayStation VR.

10th Paris Games Week, initially scheduled from 23rd to 27th October, has been cancelled.

Since its launch in November 2019, Jedi: Fallen Order has sold 10 million copies.

Last year added another 100 million players to Fortnite. Epic’s hit battle royale is now played by more than 350 million people.

Since King launched Candy Crush Saga in 2012, it has remained the top match-3 game for monthly global consumer spend. Until now.

CD Projekt Red has always been vocal about not having microtransactions in its titles. That was certainly the case with The Witcher series, and that has been the plan for Cyberpunk 2077. However, yesterday ESRB published its rating for Cyberpunk, which mentions “In-Game Purchases.”

The next creation by Sid Meier will not be a game, but a book. A book of memoirs. It’s aptly titled Sid Meier’s Memoir! and it’s due out on September 8.

CD Projekt announced its plans to diversify how it manages surplus cash. The company is going to invest it in treasury bonds.

Electronic Arts’ net income (profit) in the 2020 fiscal year rose to $3.039 billion, up 198.2 percent from the $1.019 generated in the 2019 fiscal year.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp generated $7.9 million in April, which became the game’s best month ever.

GameAnalytics has shared fresh data on how consumer behaviour changed in mobile games in response to lockdowns. The report analyzes traffic changes, playtime, IAP spend and genre trends in Q1 2020.

Developers can now download Unreal Engine 4.25, which supports Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. The Fortnite company intends to update the vervsion throughout the year.

Last September, MicroProse, the publisher of the early Sid Meier’s Civilization and  X-COM games, announced its comeback. Now the company launched Steam pages for its three new titles.

Mobile analyst firm Sensor Tower announce a $45 million growth investment from Riverwood Capital.